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lae, laelae (continued). 
thing; lae po‘opo‘oli‘ili‘t, to go way- 
wardly; lae mola gqalagqala, to go for 
naught; ko lae ni ramo, he goes in his 
might; laelae i rodo, to go till nightfall; 
lae rorora, to goina hurry; nge‘i ke‘i lae 
ta‘ane, he will surely go; nou lae takalo, 
I am lost; lae tara‘asi, to go straight on; 
lai toli, to be going to fish out at sea; 
munti‘e hara lae, begin to go gently; ‘oke 
haro lae, go gently; noko hirue‘i lae, I 
am hindered from going; ka‘el‘e laelae, 
let us go; le‘u noko lae ana, le‘u noko lae 
hunie, whither I go; noko loona‘i lac, I 
intend going; luge‘t lae, to pretend to 
go; mdni ni‘ilana sakanga e méni lae 
hunieu, all power is given unto me; 
melu orei lae, we almost went; e tau ni 
lae, he made to go. 
laeha v. n., a company traveling. 
laenga v. n. 1. a journey; maai laenga, S., 
maant laenga, U., a journey; nge laenga 
kesi lae, then the journey will take place. 
2. laenga (ku), U., laeha (ku), S., a going; 
laengana, his going; laehaku e ‘aela, I 
can not walk well. 
laehi tr., to travel through a place. 
laeli, laelaeli tr. 1. to cause the bowels to be 
open. 2. laelit wala, to make an oration; 
laeli walanga, oratory, address, speech- 
ifying. 
laelae‘i partic., ere laelae‘t, talk by the way 
side. 
laela-(ku) gerund., /aelaku, my going. Lau 
lea, to go; Mailu laea, path. 
laha adj., big (not in common use); Su‘u Laha, 
a boat harbor south of Su‘u Peine; 
Pululaha, a harbor south of the west 
entrance to Mara Masiki Channel. cf. 
alaha, a chief. Mota lava, Florida haba, 
Maori raha. 
lahe v. tr., to praise, to extol. 
lahe‘a adj., praised, blessed. 
lahela-(ku) gerund. 
lahi, la‘ilehi 1. to lay eggs. 2. v. tr., to be in 
travail with; ko lehie eronga, in travail 
with deceit. 
laho‘a adj., foggy, cloudy. 
lahu 1. to be worn out. 2. worn out things, 
mu lehui ola; mu lehuni to‘oni, ragged 
clothes. Lau lafu, Wango rahu, old; 
Florida ravu. 
lahu 3. v. i., to blow a conch shell. 
lahula-(ku) gerund., léhulana ‘aihuri, the 
sound of the conch. 
lahu U. 4. n., place; ilahuna, ilehuna, there; 
mwai lehu ine, those places. Sa‘a le‘u, 
Florida levu. 
lahute‘i U., partic., prostrate. 
lai 1. contraction of lae i: e lae té‘t Sa‘a, he 
went to Sa‘a; noko lai haka, I am going 
abroad; noko lai leesie, I go to see it; la 
loosi haa, to go and inspect the money 
given for a bride; noko lai lou, I go 
bonito fishing; 2. e lai‘aela; cf. la 1. 
14 3. participial ending, honu honule‘i. 
paalahe. 
LAMA 
141 4. suffix to verb, used intransitively; to 
make it transitive 7 is added, lé‘ini. 
1é‘ini tr., suffix, ta‘e, ta‘elé‘ini. 
laka to play (of shoals of bonito); mu seu ko 
laka, the bonito play in schools. 
lakali U., to have sexual intercourse. hé‘ilakali. 
lakata‘ini U., v. tr., to open the eye. 
lakelake U., tau lakelake, used with poss. 3, to 
give oneself airs. 
lakoma‘ini S., v. tr., to be parallel to, to lay 
on longitudinally. rakoma‘ini, U. hele 
lakoma‘inie, hold it to, together with, 
on it. 
lakoma‘i partic., laid out along, longitudi- 
nally; radpu lakoma‘i pe‘i po‘upo‘u, to 
crucify; ‘uri lakoma‘i, to tread in the 
steps of. 
laku, la‘uleku v. i., to be whole, entire, safe. 
ha‘ileku, sapeliku; e ka‘a ola ke léku, 
there is nothing whole. Lau lau. 
lalahu‘e adj., worn out, old. Jahu. 
lala‘ini v. tr., to stretch out. Wango rarasi. 
lala‘i partic., outstretched. 
lala‘inila-(ku) gerund. 
lalako U., nanako S., v.i., to be sticky, to stick. 
lalamoa n., a person killed by violence, a 
victim; momo lalamoa, armlet. gf. 
momo; lalamoa méuri, a captive; poo ke 
ne‘t lalamoa ko ‘olisie ‘oto a mwaena, a 
pig is the victim in place of the man; 
é hai lalamoa e mae hunia Qai, four dead 
men for Qai to pay a fine for; taho 
lalamoa, to pay for a man killed by 
violence. 
lalani U., Jalani wala, to make an oration, to 
speechify. 
lalaunge‘iS., ‘unu lalaunge‘i, to tell beforehand. 
lalawa 1. v.i., to belazy. ka‘alawa. 2.U.,to 
be unwilling; luge‘i lalawa haahi, to give 
a feigned excuse. 
lalawanga v. n., laziness. 
lalawasi U., v. tr., to reject, to neglect 
through laziness. 
lalawa 3. n., the marrow; mu lalawai ola ana 
suli, the marrow of the bones. 
lalemo 1. without coconut milk; kara lalemo, 
yam pudding without the milk. 2. 
unfermented. 
lalo (ku) 1. n., inside, within; ‘oto waz lalo, 
inside; lalona e ‘aela, it is bad inside; 
lalona e waawaa, nothing inside it; 
laloit ha‘a, within the garner; laloi suli, 
within the bones. 2. U., laloku, my 
stomach, my insides. 3. ddu lalo ana, 
to be immersed in, to be plunged into. 
Mota lolo, Motu lalo, Wedau ano, pith; 
Wango raro, Gilberts nano. 
lalo 4. U., n., a garden; lalo inéu, my garden; 
4 epina lalo, bordering on the garden; 
‘atoni lalo, to lay out a garden. 
lalo‘a adj., roomy, spacious. 
Laloi Su‘u (lit., in the Su‘u) Mara Masiki 
Channel, which divides Malaita. 
lama 1. v. tr., to cut up trees, to cut felled trees 
into billets convenient for burning; lama 
tali, to free a tree of creepers; met., to 
free persons. 
